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A bicycle has two wheels. Bilateral means two-sided. A biped is someone with two feet (like you!).
A submarine goes under the sea. Subtracting is a kind of math where you take away (pull under) one number from another.
To descend is to go down. To deposit is to put down. To deduce is to think your way down from a big truth.
Predicting is announcing something before it even happens. To prepare is to get ready before an event.
To supervise is to watch over people. A superman is someone with powers over and above the norm.
"This ill-luck had given a gentle melancholy to his countenance. " Peter Pan
"What silenced me was a profound sense of awe." Why We Can't Wait
"The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself." Martin Luther King
"There is a prodigious stench in this place." The Crucible
"In India, she always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything.” The Secret Garden
An undone task is not completed. Being unable means not being able to do it. Unequal bowls of ice cream are not equal.
International agreements are agreements between nations. To interject your opinion into a conversation is to insert yourself between two people who are trying to talk.
A semicircle is a half circle. A semiannual even happens every six months - half a year!
To dismiss a class is to send the students away. To distract someone is to draw their attention away.
In a symphony orchestra, musicians play together. Shapes that can be split into 2 identical pieces and then put together have symmetry.
"A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy." Frankenstein
"Her head ached acutely." Pride and Prejudice
"They had faces like grotesque masks." Heart of Darkness
"She was forced to condescend to our company." Wuthering Heights
"A flash of odious joy appeared upon the woman's face." Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A ship can circumnavigate the Earth by sailing all the way around it. To be circumspect is to be cautious and looking around.
A malevolent person has bad will or evil intentions. A malady is when you feel bad.
A postscript is the PS we put at the bottom of a letter after we have written it. Our posterity are our descendants who come after us.
An equilateral triangle has three equal parts. Equilibrium is in a system of equal balance.
The antecedent is the noun that comes before the pronoun. The anterior is the front part of something.
"All the pain he had endured was as nothing compared with the exquisite agony of this." The Call of the Wild
“The obscure bird clamored the livelong night.” Macbeth
"Now we are rewarded for our sublime faith in a mother's love." Peter Pan
"His voice has a timid and tremulous sound." Adventures in Wonderland
“It was already four years since there had been any allusion to the subject between them." Passage to India
An aquarium is a tank of water with fish in it. An aqueduct was built by the Romans to bring water to the city.
Your auditory nerves help you hear. An audience comes to hear the show.
To describe is to write down a description. A scribe is someone who writes things down.
Someone precedes you when they go before you do. A flood goes back when it recedes.
Incisors are teeth that cut. To excise is to cut out.
“I found Renfield sitting placidly in his room with his hands folded, smiling benignly.” Dracula
"A wind was rising and making a singular, wild, low, rushing sound." The Secret Garden
"Jody had never seen her so amiable." The Yearling
"Magua shook his head incredulously." The Last of the Mohicans
“And yet here I was perplexed again. " Robinson Crusoe
Something is credible when it is believable. A credo is a set of beliefs.
An emission is like car exhaust that is sent out. A missive is a letter that you send.
To kill a human is homicide. To kill a king is regicide. To kill a (particular) group of people is genocide.
To contradict is to say something against another's statement. Diction describes the way that you say things.
A rebellion is a war of opposition. Belligerent is another word that means warlike and hostile.
"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. " Charles Dickens
"I travelled only at night, fearful of encountering the visage of a human being." Frankenstein.
"I deeply venerated my cousin's talent and principle." Jane Eyre
"My strength had much abated." Kidnapped
"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. " Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
A spectator is someone who looks on to situation or event. A spectrum is an array of colors.
Something that is pending means it's hanging in wait, or not yet decided. To depend is to hang on or rely on something else for support.
Omnipotent means all-powerful. Omnivorous means eating everything.
To reiterate is to repeat again. When you bring someone back to life again, you revive them.
To make an exception is to treat someone or something differently than the usual, outside of the normal expectations.
"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar." Hamlet
"The highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to the other." The Return of the Native
"Jello whined an undulating note and Kapu turned back to the den." Julie of the Wolves
"Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind." 1984
"The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing a death sentence." Leaves of Grass
A benefit is a good thing to receive. A benefactor is a person who does a good thing!
Dissonance is a clashing, hard sound, and a sonnet is a beautiful-sounding fourteen-line poem.
A novice is a beginner, someone who is new at something. Innovative describes someone who comes up with new ideas!
Sanguine means cheerful, with rosy, blood-filled cheeks! Consanguinity means related by blood.
Metacognition means knowing and understanding your own thought process. Incognito means that someone is unknown, or their real identity is hidden.
"It was discomforting to see Huck eyeing Joe's preparations so wistfully." Tom Sawyer
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. " J.R.R. Tolkien
"Among other animals, bees and ants had the reputation of more industry, art, and sagacity than many of the larger kinds." Gulliver's Travels
"'Wendy," remonstrated Michael, "I'm too big for a cradle.'" Peter Pan
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." Oscar Wilde
To make a conjecture is to 'throw out' a guess. An interjection shows excitement or emotion, and is thrown into the middle or at the end of a sentence.
A dormitory is a building for students to sleep in. Something that is dormant is in a state of sleep.
Magnificent describes something that is beautiful, elaborate, or extravagant. Magnanimous refers to greatness or generosity of mind!
To verify something is to check it to see if it is true. A verdict is the jury's decision of truth in a trial.
Your reputation is what other people think of you. A dispute is an argument between people who think differently about something.
“Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. " George Santayana
"Aunt Polly was vexed to thing she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence." Tom Sawyer
"I was going to prostrate myself to kiss his hoof." Gulliver's Travels
"A harsh cry seemed to come out of the abyss of ages." Lord of the Flies
one who suffers or dies for a principle
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. " Napoleon Bonaparte
A monarchy is a government of one person, like a king. Anarchy is the lawless lack of government!
Biology is the study of living things. A biography is the story of someone's life.
An autograph is when you yourself have signed your name. Autonomy can be a self-governing country or region.
Events that are ordered by the time they occurred are in chronological order. A chronic cold is one that lasts a long time.
A decagon has ten sides. A decade is ten years long. The decimal system has a base of ten.
"The slow days drifted on, and each left behind it a slightly lightened weight of apprehension. " Tom Sawyer
"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only." Walden.
"Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing." Call of the Wild
"The sun ...seemed blood red, and threw an unfamiliar lurid light upon everything." The War of the Worlds
"As we talked, a sense of doom began to pervade the room. " Martin Luther King
Geology is the study of the Earth's rocks and minerals. Geography is the study of the Earth's features. Geometry is a study that began in order to measure spaces on Earth.
A microscope lets us look at small things; a telescope lets us look at things far away.
An antithesis is an idea that is opposite or against another one. Antibacterial soap works against bacteria that make you sick.
Introductions provide information that leads someone into something (a conversation, a writing piece, etc.). Being introspective means looking into oneself thoughtfully.
The Neolithic age was the New Stone Age. Neon was a new gas that was discovered.
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"The pleasant showers and genial warmth of spring greatly altered the aspect of the Earth." Frankenstein
"And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands." Tom Sawyer
"The most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded." 1984
"Her dedicated, austere life could not be thus explained." The Double Helix
"The boy watched him furtively, then came behind him without speaking and picked up bits, too, and hurled them at the tree." The Yearling